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Showing 1 to 20 of 802 for “"body mass index"”.
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Dysmenorrhea and body mass index
… by BMI categories per se, but by extremes in body weight. Future research must include a larger data set so that differences between BMI groups can be more readily detected. It may also be prudent to control for nulliparity in future studies since dysmenorrhea has been shown to be inversely …
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Body Mass Index and Soft Drink Consumption Among Adolescents
Objective: To determine the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and soft drink consumption among adolescents. It is hypothesized that soft drink consumption contributes to overweight and obesity among adolescents.</p> <p>Background: Research examining the relationship between body mass index …
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Body Mass Index and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status in Washington State
… between Messer's neighborhood deprivation index7 and census-tract level body mass index (BMI) measures created using driver's license data8. Messer’s neighborhood deprivation index and census-tract BMI scores are new measures for Washington State. Methods: Messer's neighborhood deprivation …
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Predicting Body Mass Index in Northern Plains American Indian Children
… and sedentary behavior), (c) attitudes about body size (i.e., body dissatisfaction, attitudes toward body size, attempted weight loss), ( d) emotional eating variables (i.e., self-esteem and emotional eating), and ( e) cultural identity. A simultaneous multiple regression was also conducted on …
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Prepregnancy Body Mass Index, Gestational Weight Gain, and Child's Asthma Development
… investigate the association between prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and childhood asthma development (aim 1), evaluate potential mediating pathways between prepregnancy BMI and childhood asthma risk (aim 2), and explore the role of GWG on risk of childhood asthma (aim 3). We investigated these …
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Family Systems Variables as Predictors of Eating Styles and Body Mass Index
… variables and childhood feeding practices on Body Mass Index (BMI). The family variables of interest were intergenerational intimacy, intergenerational differentiation, intergenerational triangulation, spousal intimacy, spousal differentiation, nuclear family triangulation, and the …
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Body mass index and response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in Korean breast cancer
… of neoadjuvant chemotherapy(NAC) and body mass index (BMI) in patients with breast cancer have been reported in many studies. According to many studies, poor prognosis is associated with obesity in western breast cancer patients, but not in oriental breast cancer patients. We studied …
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Body Mass Index Category, Exercise, and Depression: Predicting Condom Use at Last Intercourse
Body Mass Index intersects with many predictors of condom use; however, few studies have viewed obesity as an independent predictor of condom use. Using a theoretical viewpoint that the obesity stigma may change an individual’s behavior, I look at BMI as an independent variable predicting condom …
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Effects of Internal Versus External Attribution and Body Mass Index on Weight Prejudice
… internal and external attribution and a person's Body Mass Index on weight prejudice. Data for this research was obtained from an ABC News/Time Magazine Poll (2004). Logistic regression was used to analyze the data. My hypothesis that people who internally attribute the cause of being overweight …
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Is measuring best? Evaluating report derived body mass index in Special Olympics participants
… height and weight for the calculation of body mass index (BMI). However, no studies have reported the validity of self and proxy-reported height and weight in persons with intellectual disabilities (ID). This study aimed to determine the validity of self and proxy-reported height and …
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Mid-upper arm circumference: a surrogate for body mass index in pregnant women?
… of an accurate assessment at the booking visit. Body mass index is currently the gold standard for measuring body fatness. However, pregnancy associated weight gain and oedema, as well as late booking in our population setting, questions the reliability of using the BMI to assess body fat or …
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Whole Grain Intake in College Students and its Association with Body Mass Index
… students and to determine its association with body mass index (BMI), a measure of overweight and obesity. The participants (N=164) were recruited from a freshmen level nutrition course (of 485 students) at Virginia Tech in spring of 2004. Students kept food records to record their usual diets …
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Television Viewing Habits, Body Mass Index, Dietary Behaviors and Physical Activity Among University Students
<p>This study examined the relationship between TV-viewing, BMI, dietary behaviors and physical activity in a purposive sample of university students. Twenty-three items from the National College Health Risk Behavior Survey were used. For data analysis, students were placed into dichotomous …
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Association Between the Number of Remaining Teeth and Body Mass Index in Older Adults
… factors affecting the health of the whole body. In particular, the ability to chew food in relation with the remaining number of teeth in an aged person affects overall nutritional, which has been proven to be an important factor, directly affecting the quality of life of the elderly. …
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Body Image: Relationhsip to Attachment, Body Mass Index and Dietary Practices among College Students
Body image or satisfaction with physical appearance has been established as an important aspect of self-worth and mental health across the life span. It is related to self-esteem, sexuality, family relationships and identity. Given the fact that physical appearance is a multifaceted structural …
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Analysis of aberrant eating behaviors and body mass index on weight cycling in women
… binge eating, emotional eating and body mass index (BMI) while controlling for their simultaneous effects in women selected from a general population. Moreover, the interrelationships between the measures of dietary restraint, disinhibition, binge eating, and emotional eating were …
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Relationship Between Self-Care Agency, Self-Care Practices, and Body Mass Index Among Nursing Professionals
… agency (SCA), self-care practices (SCP), and Body Mass Index (BMI) among Registered Nurses (RNs) living in an urban South Dakota county. These specific constructs and their relationships have not been researched among nursing professionals. Methods: This study used a non-experimental, …
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EFFETTI NEGATIVI DEL BODY MASS INDEX SUI PARAMETRI SPERMATICI CONVENZIONALE E NON CONVENZIONALI (IN CITOFLORIMETRIA)
L’obesità viene oggi considerata una malattia sociale. Tra gli effetti negativi conseguenti alla sindrome metabolica viene spesso documentato in letteratura un peggioramento dei parametri seminologici convenzionali . Molto poco, di contro, è stato indagato circa gli effetti dell’obesità sui …
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Relationships between body mass index, appetite regulation and physical activity during shift-work and night-work
… approach, the relationships between body mass index (8M I), appetite regulation, gastrointestinal health and physical activity during shift-work and night-work. In the first study (presented in Chapter 3), a cross-sectional study design was adopted to explore the relationships between …
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